The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1887-07-14

Ladies" walking shoes ut Hunts.
j. A. Walsly of Milnor was in the
city Monday.
Nick Marsh has added a lunch de-
partment to his sample room.
Ladies' curacao kid sl.oes for $3.50,
worth 1926. Hunt the shoe, man.
Mrs. r. N. Ink has been quite ill
the past several days but is now
improving.
Best brands of paints, oils, var
nishes, brushes, ETC., ut d. v. Crafts.
Mrs. Col. Hawkes. departed for
Rockford, Illinois, Friday evening,
her mother being very i'll.
Ladies and gents should call at A.
Miksche's for stylish straw goods. 5
Valley d. Crafts has just done an
elegant job of painting and papering
for o. H. Perry, Esq, Of Paramount. !.
Mr.. Perry now has one of the most
pretty homes in the country.
Gents calf shoes in button, lace,
or elastic sides for $500 worth "a 90.
at Hunts one price shoe store. IL
The circus sho v boards bl ew down
Sunday and "came within one" of
killing two or three urchins who
stood admiring the pictures. The
youngsters had the good sense to
run when the boards started, barely
escaping with their lievs.
Ladies' French kid shoes in all
widths, at the lowest living prices,
at Hunts one price shoe store. IL
The Congregational church ladies
at Hankinson cleared $242. As on the
Fourth. This was doing very well
indeed. The people cut there will
soon havea pretty and we'll equipped
church and a graded school. Rev.
Mr.. Long is the regular minister at
present.
Hunt the shoe man has put up a
very pretty window curtain in his
elegant store.
The Wahpeton boys were downed
yesterday at Fargo nine to three.
Rittenhouse was unable to play,
his hand being in bad shape from
the hurt received at Fergus. And
Fav0ur's arm gave out on the second
inning. A Fargo man umpired and
was partial to Fargo.
Go to Carter & Bowden for your
blacksmitning near the Henry livery
stable.
The other day two section men
walked into Charlie Sherman's sa-
loon at Ransom City and notified
the proprietor that they would run
the place, and that he might 60, etc.
Charlie knocked one down with the
butt of a revolver and shot the other
through an arm and a thigh, after
which the rutfians were taken care
of. The citizens justify the shooting.
John Reeder of the Chicago store
las just received a large invoice of
dry goods, gents furnishings and
notions. Call and inspect. l
James Carter of the firm of Carter
& Bowden, blacksmittls, of this city,
and II. Norton of Breckenridge,
accompanied by their wives whom
we mentioned as on fishing trip.
brought up at Ida Lake, some 80
miles north of Fergus, a large and
beautiful sheet of water six miles
long and three miles wide, where
they had a big time fishing. They
brought home a barrel of the very
finest sort fish, salted down, and
favoring The TIMES with two or
three nice ones. We can testify to
their good quality. This is now the
boss lake for fish.
Window poles and fixtures at cost
at d. V. Crafts paint and wall pa
per store, 8
WATERTowN, June 23.-Ames B.
Miller, seventy years of age, living
on the @. D. Stevens farm one mile
south Of this city, was arraigned to-
day before Justice Werden on the
charge of rape committed npon his
step-daughter, Ella Miller, aged but
thirteen years. The girls condition
was such that she could not be
brought to town to-day, and the
case was adjourned until to-morrow
morning, when the unfortunate vic
tim will be placed upon the witness
stand. 1t is reported that the de-
tense will show that the crime was
not committed by violence or force,
IN opnsition to the assent of the VIC
tim, but under the new law, which
has fixed the age of consent at four
teen years, the criminal is liable to
tue severest punishment possible.